Example sentences of "made good " in BNC.
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| 1 | The weather was not too promising , but we made good time and were soon at the first terrace . |
| 2 | He says ‘ His rules made good sense then and they make better sense now as the pressures grow inexorably , yet they have been ignored in certain sensitive areas , with results which are both plain and heart-rending to see . ’ |
| 3 | He made good use of every piece of newspaper that he could pick up and every convenient hedgerow ! |
| 4 | The snow improved as the slope steepened and I made good time up the 100 metres to the ridge top and along to the ‘ summit ’ . |
| 5 | Even that is not clear : many of the break-up bids of the past decade made good economic sense . |
| 6 | Once I had desired a world made good and right and pure , as I conceived , by a Liberal statesman benevolent and omnipotent . |
| 7 | A presidential authorization for a covert operation , a ‘ mini-finding ’ , was rushed out at the end of November , so secretly that hardly anyone knew of it ; this made good what had happened already , which was not supposed to have happened at all . |
| 8 | Sasbach was no exception and I made good progress with Pascal 's Pensées . |
| 9 | Seaman made good saves from Ndlovu and Robson , Winterburn blocked a shot on the line while Smith blasted a good opportunity over the bar . |
| 10 | It all made good sense at the time , but it has turned the middle-classes into sitting ducks , waiting to be plucked by Mr Smith . |
| 11 | He made good use of the opportunity , bringing his horse round the outside of two leaders on the final bends to hit the front before the last . |
| 12 | Holly had a normal heart and made good progress but Carly , who had a heart defect , died on April 10 1985 , after a three-hour operation to clear a bile duct . |
| 13 | ‘ Many of the composers who made good on Broadway were Jewish refugees from the 19th-century pogroms in Europe , ’ says Knapp , who is not quite as dry as he might sound . |
| 14 | OLIVER Cromwell may be the local boy made good in Huntingdon but he is still unmentionable in Drogheda , as Lady Antonia Fraser recalled in a Lenten talk at Our Lady of Victories , west London . |
| 15 | The most attractive of the prospectuses made good use of photographs . |
| 16 | It made good copy and helped with the film 's publicity ; they also gave an insight into what others thought of Nicholson and the way he saw himself , then . |
| 17 | In America he made good . |
| 18 | Selection favoured beaver genes that made good lakes for transporting trees , just as it favoured genes that made good teeth for felling them . |
| 19 | Selection favoured beaver genes that made good lakes for transporting trees , just as it favoured genes that made good teeth for felling them . |
| 20 | The most appealing aspect of The Smiths is their charisma — working class street boys made good but still retain an aura of mystery . |
| 21 | Dawn made good progress , and was soon able to stand up . |
| 22 | David MacKinlay was a Lewisach born and bred , educated at Stornoway who made good in the outside world . |
| 23 | They came to the conclusion that trusts offered a significant advantage only in their Republican days ; in that period it may well be that peregrines and other disadvantaged classes made good use of them . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's the local guy made good who we are now trying to get to , ’ says Ian Sharpe , a Barclays secondee working on the Newcastle Initiative ( NI ) , a task force set up in 1988 to promote the city 's renaissance . |
| 25 | Initially , partly sheltered by the great landmass of North Uist , we made good progress southwards . |
| 26 | I 'd heard the door spring open and the stairs groan as she made good her escape . |
| 27 | Once free of the knotted tentacles of the eastern suburbs , Dalgliesh made good time and by three he was driving through Lydsett village . |
| 28 | He had his little peccadilloes , the quaint and rather Machiavellian ways to gain his little ends , but he knew me and I knew him , and in essentials he made good . ’ |
| 29 | In the 1960s the oil boom made Venezuela the country to emigrate to , and it was a common occurrence for the emigrant who made good to hire a large American car ( Cadillac or similar ) and to return to Madeira by ship with the car . |
| 30 | William Blake made good poetic use of this confusion of ‘ mill ’ and ‘ church ’ , too . |